{"id":1222,"date":"2021-05-25T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/course\/drama-577-theatre-history-seminar\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T15:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:25:56","slug":"drama-577-theatre-history-seminar","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/course\/drama-577-theatre-history-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama 577 &#8211; Theatre History Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founding Visions is a documentary history of the American art theatre in the words of its visionaries and pioneers. We&#8217;ll explore that history through the writings of the founders themselves, from Jane Addams (Hull House, 1880s) to experimental theatre pioneers of the 1960s (e.g. Luis Valdez, Richard Schechner, and Charles Ludlam). We&#8217;ll encounter the letters, memoirs, and manifestoes of such early figures as George (Jig) Cram Cook &#038; Susan Glaspell (Provincetown), John Houseman\/Orson Welles (Mercury Theatre), and Hallie Flanagan (Federal Theatre Project), and more recent leaders like Margo Jones, Zelda Fichandler, Joseph Papp, Judith Malina and Julian Beck, Douglas Turner Ward, Herbert Blau, Robert Brustein, Tyrone Guthrie, and many others. In other words, we will trace our current theatre\u2019s family tree. More than history, though, the class aims to articulate questions about the identity, spirit, mission, function, influence, and meaning of individual theatres. \u00a0What is a theatre? \u00a0What is an American theatre? \u00a0What is the role of artistic organizations in a democracy? Where does a theatre\u2019s particular genius lie? What are the advantages and disadvantages of professionalism, of institutionalism? What comes from the collision of art and politics, race, or place? \u00a0How does idealism live in the theatre? How does vision get articulated (or not) in practice? \u00a0And finally, what are the theatrical strains we inherit from the past century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"class_list":["post-1222","course","type-course","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-courses"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 23:29:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}